Thursday, September 22, 2005

Annoying things, cars

So I was busily swapping my car for my flatmate's car so I could get out and go to my singing lesson. We have a fairly steep drive with a corner on it. When we have four cars parked there getting out is a bit difficult. When I back out differently to the way I normally do it I forget to look in one particular mirror until I hear the sickening crunch of car hitting tree.

:-(

Just got back from the panelbeaters - it wil cost me $450+GST to fix.

:-((

Just enough to be really annoying but not enough to justify lodging an insurance claim.

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Concert on November 10, 2005

You saw it here first. There will be a singing concert on November 10, 2005 at 6pm at St Andrew's on The Terrace. This will be a chance to hear the exam pieces of myself and some of my singing teacher's students.
I'll be doing Brahms Die Mainacht, Chauson Les Temps de Lilas, Britten Nocturne and Gilbert & Sullivan A Wand'ring Minstrel I. I may do Brahms In Native Worth - we'll see.

The cost? A mere gold coin donation at the door.

See you there!

Monday, September 05, 2005

Scorching Duathlon 03/09/2005

So I did the Scorching Duathlon yesterday - the long option which was a 7.5km run, 36km cycle and a 2.5km run.
Guess where I came - yes, that's right, last!
Splits were 41:45, 1:32:05, 14:13. I really need to work on my cycling. I think I had the slowest cycle split of everybody...

Friday, September 02, 2005

Insider's view of New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina

I just came across this on Slashdot, http://mgno.com/. It's a first hand description of what's happening in New Orleans from a (Army?) network tech trying to keep some Internet access. It's amazingly scary to hear just what's happening there. So much for the most powerful nation in the world, huh?